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Under the Knife
In Search of Beauty

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Suh-kyung Yoon

Updated Oct. 29, 1999 12:17 a.m. ET

I paid 1 million won ($830) to get a wrinkle. A strategically located wrinkle, yes, but a wrinkle nonetheless. It runs along my eyelid and folds under when I open my eyes. A plastic surgeon expertly put three stitches along my upper eyelids to force that fold to form. Three days of swelling and a lot of painkillers later, voila, a double eyelid -- Venetian blinds for the windows to my soul.

If you don't know that you have double eyelids, you probably aren't Asian. Epicanthic folds -- as medical textbooks refer to them -- are...